System Administrator

Vmware ESXi NAT Networking

The case: You have multiple virtual machines that you don’t want to expose directly to the internet and you prefer routing them through a single virtual machine. This is also handy if you are short on IPs. Our case is OVH specific and it will give you a guide on how to set things up on OVH weird network topology. Reason why we use ipcop instead of pfsense is because pfsense doesn’t support a 32bit net mask. No matter what i’ve tried i could get it to work with a 32 bit netmask and gateway on separate network. So IpCop was the next best thing and it does the job quite well.

Proceed on creating a new VM including both NICs the one that you just created and the one that connects you to the outside world.

Then move on with standard installation of IPcop. Keep in mind that your RED network will be the one connecting outside and the GREEN one will be your internal nat network. If you are not sure of the network settings while installing proceed and will edit network config later on anyways.

After installation login to the machine and now let’s edit the files needed for proper networking under OVH routers.